Elizabeth Martínez est une féministe chicana célébrée et une organisatrice communautaire dont l'écriture prolifique explore les mouvements sociaux à travers les Amériques. Son travail est salué pour son engagement infatigable et irrépressible à documenter le militantisme progressiste, offrant des histoires vivantes essentielles des luttes contemporaines. Sa voix distinctive et son esprit infatigable animent un ensemble d'œuvres qui capturent la lutte continue pour la justice sociale.
Elizabeth Martínez's work comprises one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era ... inimitable ... irrepressible ... indefatigable. -Angela Y. Davis
A boy suspects his mother is a witch (and isn't entirely wrong) in this wonderfully irreverent, humorous rhyming story with Quentin Blake-esque illustrations
Letters from Mississippi gives us a deeply personal look at one of the Civil Rights Movement's key moments--and reminds us that change happens because regular people have decided they were willing to fight for it.---Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund This expanded edition includes over forty pages of poetry by students in the Freedom Schools of 1964, adding the lively voices of local participants, mostly teenagers, to those of the volunteers from the North. The new edition also includes an additional dozen biographies, resulting in a wider resource for scholarship and for a general understanding of this critical moment in civil rights history